File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 1061


Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:30:54 -0500
From: Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Number Symbolism


At 08:15 PM 11/27/97 -0500, you (Paul Stone <pas-AT-MNSi.Net>) wrote:
>>Try Dante and the Bible.  Esp. Revelation.
>>
>>pat
>
>	That's TWO. And I have read both of those quite a bit. I don't argue
>against them both using number symbolism. My point is and was, that there
>aren't very many instances. And there is intent and usage, and then there
>is Drosnin's malarchy (or however you spell that).
>
>wolffy
>

Howzabout the hellenistic and neoteric and augustan lyric and elegiac and
pastoral stuff I mentioned in my last post? If you want refs, I got refs.

(See the general and specific points I made in my last post on this thread.)

All best,

Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing-AT-nyu.edu or downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu



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